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Die Mercurii, 30 Januarii, 1649.

Representation and Elections.

THE House, according to former Order, was this
Day resolved into a Grand Committee, upon the
Heads of the Bill for an equal Representative, and the
regulating Elections.

Mr. Speaker left the Chair.

Mr. Say took the Chair.

Mr. Speaker, according to former Order, at Eleven
of the Clock, resumed the Chair.

Mr. Say reports from the Grand Committee for an
equal Representative, and regulating Elections, That the
said Committee have adjourned till This-day-sevennight;
and desire the Leave of the House, that the said Committee may then sit accordingly.

Resolved, That this House be resolved into a Grand
Committee, on This-day-sevennight, upon the Heads of
the Bill touching an equal Representative, and regulating
the Elections: And that Mr. Speaker do forbear to take
the Chair.

Stile in Negotiations.

The House, according to former Order, proceeded in
the Debate upon the Report from the Council of State,
touching the Stile to be used in Foreign Transactions.

Resolved, That, in all Transactions and Negotiations
with Foreign Princes and States, the Stile or Title to be
used shall be Parliamentum Reipublicæ Anglia.

Resolved, That the Lords Commissioners for the Great
Seal of England be authorized and required to pass, under the Great Seal of England, several Commissions in
common Form, mutatis mutandis, to the Two Agents
appointed by the Council of State to be employed to
Spaine and Portugall.

Resolved, That the Stile and Title, wherein any
Address shall be made to the Parliament from Foreign
Princes and States, shall be the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England; and no other Stile or Title
whatsoever.

Navy, &c.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Council of State,
to take care for the speedy Dispatch of the Fleet to Sea,
and the several Agents now appointed to be sent to
Foreign States.

Beckwith's Children.

Ordered, That it be referred to the Council of State,
to examine the Business touching the Children of Captain
Arthur Beckwith, deceased, which are endeavoured to be
conveyed away beyond Sea, by the Wife of the said
Captain Beckwith, (she being a Papist); and to give such
Order and Direction therein, as they shall think sit.

Neve's Petition.

The humble Petition of Oliver Neve, in the Behalf of
Francis Neve, of Great Witchingham in the County of
Norfolk, was this Day read.